Brock Bingaman and Bradley Nassif This book is an ecumenical collection of scholarly essays on the Philokalia, a title meaning “love of beauty” or “love of what is good.” It suggests that God transforms human beings through love, enabling them to share in the divine beauty. The Philokalia is a selection of some of the noblest writings to be found in the monastic tradition of the early and Byzantine Church from the fourth to fifteenth centuries. This five-volume